Organizations Filed Purposes:
Attitudinal Healing Connection's (AHC) empowers individuals to be self-aware and inspired through art, creativity, and education to make positive choices to break the cycle of violence for themselves and their communities. Through our educational programs, workshops, events, and healing circles, we cultivate skills in personal development, community leadership, and the arts. Our work is based on the Principles of Attitudinal Healing, a non-traditional approach to mental health that develops resiliency by promoting self-awareness, mindfulness and compassion.
Attitudinal Healing Connection empowers individuals to be self-aware and inspired through art, creativity, and education to make positive choices to break the cycle of violence for ourselves and our communities.
Since 1995, AHC's award-winning ArtEsteem program has helped develop creative, engaged and successful children and youth through artistic, emotional, social and intellectual skills. ArtEsteen is an art and social justice program offered during the school day and after school, allowing students to give voice to their dreams, desires, and concerns through visual and performing art. The curriculum combines Attudinal Healing concepts with art instruction integrated with core academic content. The ArtEsteem program provided hands-on art making opportunities to underserved schools and communities impacting over 125,00 children, youth and families. The program directly served over 2,500 children and youth during the fiscal year.
AHC's leadership and workforce development programs work hand in hand and offer youth opportunities to gain exposure and develop skills for future success. Leadership programs develop youth advocacy through community and civic engagement with a focus on the arts and environmental awareness. Workforce development programs help youth understand the value of work while giving them opportunities to grow through entry level job skill exposure. Financial literacy is part of our training which creates opportunities for youth to be better stewards over their finances while initiating a path for breaking the cycle of poverty. Accomplishments include designing, building and implementing the ArtEsteem ArtMobile; providing the 5th year of Workforce Development opportunities for 25 Oakland youth through Earn2Learn; and participating in the documentary film "Imaginary Walls." The film provides insight into our thirty years of Racial Healing Circles.
AHC offers Community Building programs through public art, healing circles, and events. These programs allow AHC to powerfully engage and bring individuals together while celebrating the arts, providing space for healing and amplifying stories and experiences of community members.Accomplishments include holding mindfulness and healing circles for hundreds of individuals and completing the 4th mural under Highway I-80 for the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Amana Harris | Exec Director | 60 | $81,067 |
| Aeesah Ababio Clottey | Assoc Director | 60 | $65,869 |
| Kokomon Halifax Clottey | Operation Mgnr | 40 | $52,600 |
| Nan Eastep | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Cathy Deforest | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Fred Lambert | Board Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Kurt Brinkman | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Williard Wheaton Davis | Board President | 6 | $0 |
| Ralph Adam Chapuis | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Cesar Escalante | Board Secretary | 4 | $0 |
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